Late last month, former Heritage star Mark Dylla, a senior at Georgia, won the NCAA championship in the 200-yard butterfly in 1 minute, 40.60 seconds in Minnesota. Twice the national runner-up, Dylla won the event a year ago but was disqualified for using a one-handed touch on his first turn. He felt vindicated.
“I won’t lie. Last year was tough,” said Dylla, who finished first in all of his 81 prep races and won the maximum eight individual championships. “I struggled with that for quite a while. . . . But you get to the point where nothing’s going to change. I turned all that disappointment and all that anger into energy every day when I walked into the pool. It really took awhile, but I am thrilled with how it turned out.”
— Neil H. Devlin, The Denver Post
